(DON'T) BOMB BOMB BOMB, BOMB BOMB IRAN. In Salon, Steve Clemons explains why we won't attack Iran. Probably. It's pretty bizarre commentary on the state of the country that the caveat to his argument is Cheney and the NeoCons might sidestep the president and "engineer" a provocation, possibly by convincing Israel to launch some cruise missiles that will spark an Iranian retaliation. That said, the fact that their desire to do so has been made public would seem to hamper their actual capacity for such a move, as Bush -- not to mention Rice, Gates, etc -- would know, from the beginning, that they were being played, and would probably be rather unhappy about it. --Ezra Klein
